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Heat Test
convection, conduction, and radiation
Question | Answer |
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what is an example of convection? | boiling hot water on a stove |
what is conduction? | where heat travels along a substance between two SOLIDS that TOUCH EACH OTHER |
what is an example of conduction? | a pot on a hot stove (the pot is touching the stove) |
what is radiation? | the movement of heat in a WAVE LIKE MOTION though an empty space |
what is an example of radiation? | sunlight, heat from a fire, and heat from anything else which is warmer than its surroundings |
what is convection? | heat transfer by a CIRCULATION of rising warm air (less dense) and sinking cooler air (more dense) |